THE TOWN SQUARE.

[atrueheroine]

[Page silently watches the church burn for a little while, once she's emerged safely from it, before turning away and heading to the town square to meet up with everyone else. It makes sense to rest here, as they did last week, after another town with another tragic story to tell.

At least that time, however, they'd all survived it unscathed.

Once she's made it over to the group, she drops her pack onto the ground and collapses next to it, staring at her feet. It's going to take a bit to...process all of that, and while she'd love to get up in front of everyone and make some kind of rousing speech, she just doesn't have it in her at the moment.

Instead, she'll look up from the stone of the square, eventually, casting her eye over everyone and saying (almost to herself)-]

...I hope everyone is all right.

[That is likely far from true, but...well. They're all alive, Wesker is dead, and that's something. She's trying her best not to look at that little tree-sculpture with the key around its neck.


OOC: Second verse, same as the first! Here's our post-event mingle post, to talk about what the hell just happened in there, lick our wounds, and beg forgiveness from...from Flower Girl. Top-level away; Page will have her own up, if you'd like to talk to her.]

Comments

[atrueheroine]

[She wouldn't begrudge him the tears, honestly, but she can estimate that he'd prefer she didn't draw attention to the...hoarseness, so.]

I'm fine.

[It's a terrible lie (like, put in some effort, girl!), but...it'll suffice.]

What about yourself? That was a fantastic shot you made. One in a million.

[seriously boy do you want to formally join the combat team]

[planetary_bonds]

[to be quite honest, yusei's been a terrible researcher so far. it's on the table.]

I got lucky.

[this is his first time handling a gun in a combat situation after all!]

You seem exhausted. Need help with- [gestures to the grenades all lined up] -that?

[atrueheroine]

[Mhmmm. She'll actually start to pack her grenades away, at that, carefully checking the position of the pins as she does.]

I'm no more exhausted than the rest of the group, and I'm free of bullet wounds, so there's no need.

[....]

...I appreciate it, however.

[Feelings are.....hard, and today has been harder, and just....ugh.]

Smart idea with the barrier, by the way. The last thing we need is round 2 of a confrontation.

[planetary_bonds]

Mn. If I don't use it at a time like this, when will I?

[Feelings are hard, thanks!!!!!!]

It's not the physical exhaustion I'm worried about.

[atrueheroine]

[....well. That will actually get her to stop fiddling with her weapons, and look up at him. It's not an accustory look, just...cautiously curious. Guarded.]

...you sound like you want to ask something specific.

[Go on, then. If you'd like.]

[planetary_bonds]

Nothing too specific. Just checking to see how you were holding up after being held at gunpoint like that...

[And...he's not saying it but the sentiment is there: watching someone get shot in front of you. To be honest, the only reason Yusei held up was because of the adrenaline rush at the time.]

[atrueheroine]

[........]

...it's certainly not an experience I enjoy, but it wasn't the first time and it likely won't be the last. I'm used to that particular kind of violence.

[As for any other feelings that may have been triggered due to said holding at gunpoint? On that, we will decline to elaborate!

...]

Was that the first time you've seen that sort of thing? People being shot, I mean.

[planetary_bonds]

...Not with bullets. Guns in my time evolved to be more like...lasers.

[sometimes, security got a little rough with the satellites! not all of them, but enough that yusei's got a healthy distrust of The System.]

I wasn't ever aimed at, personally. But...

[It's never easy, seeing someone else get shot in front of you.]